Razor's Return!

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  1. Heavyrighthand

    Heavyrighthand Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Donovan "Razor" Ruddock To Make Ring Return In October?

    by James Slater - It seems there is a good chance we can add the name of one Donovan "Razor" Ruddock to the long list of former, top-ranked heavyweights who are unable to leave the sport for good. According to the almost always accurate Boxrec.com, the Canadian big man who lit up the heavyweight division back in the late 1980s and early 1990s is to return to action on October 2nd in Atlanta, Georgia..

    Ruddock, now aged 46 and inactive since October of 2001, will apparently face a TBA in a scheduled six-rounder. According to Boxrec, the card Razor will appear on will also feature names like Gabe Brown, also a heavyweight, and light-welter Tyrese Hendrix in action. It will surely be the Ruddock fight that gets the lion's share of fan attention that night, though - if for nothing other than reasons of curiosity.

    Ruddock, 37-5-1(28), left the sport with a 10th-round stoppage win over fellow Canadian Egerton Marcus back in late 2001, and it seemed he had called it a day for good. Best known for his wars with Mike Tyson
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    (who Razor met twice - losing a controversial 7th-round TKO the first time, a wide UD points loss the second), his wins over Mike Dokes and James "Bonecrusher" Smith, and his stoppage losses to Lennox Lewis and Tommy Morrison, Ruddock called it quits nine years ago, and reinvented himself as an actual inventor.

    Launching upon the public, "The Smash" - a remarkable trash compactor named after his once fearsome uppercut/hook hybrid - Ruddock had found a life after boxing. However, it looks like Razor has either - A: had a returned desire to fight again, or B: has a financial need to return to the ring. It's impossible to know for sure, just as it's impossible to know what kind of shape the Canadian is in.

    Back in his prime, Razor never got as far as challenging for the world title, and it's a massive long shot his planned comeback will ever alter that fact. Still, if he has retained his once withering power, Ruddock could at least make a few interesting fights at a lower level.

    In his heyday, Razor weighed in at a solid and powerful 230-pounds or so, and even in his last fight, against Marcus, Ruddock was in good physical condition. But that was a long time ago, and it's reasonable to assume the man who burst onto the world stage with that frightening 4th-round KO of former champ Dokes will come in at around 250 or more in October (if the return actually happens).

    In joining fellow veteran heavyweights like Bert Cooper, Evander Holyfield
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    and Riddick Bowe and Tommy Morrison ( both guys often being reported as wanting to have at least one more fight) as forty-somethings unable to retire to fulltime safety, Ruddock will either intrigue or appal the fans. Who knows though, we may even get to see some once talked of heavyweight match-ups from the 90's take place a decade-plus too late!

    Ruddock-Bowe, Ruddock-Cooper or Ruddock-Morrison II, anyone!? ​
     
    Heavyrighthand, Aug 5, 2010
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  2. Wiirdo

    Wiirdo Boxing Addict banned

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    This is such a bad move. I wouldn't mind if he just fought bums and other beyond shot fighters like Bowe though if he wanted to.
     
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  3. Cachibatches

    Cachibatches Boxing Junkie banned

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    ****, get him in a four man tournament with Bowe, Holyfield and Toney- winner gets a shot, all losers retire.

    Why the hell not?
     
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  4. Swarmer

    Swarmer Patrick Full Member

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    terrible idea

    but i'll watch just to see ruddock SMAAAASHUUU
     
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  5. OBCboxer

    OBCboxer Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    He's been past it for almost 20 years now.
     
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  6. derrick

    derrick 6ft4 215 bring it on Full Member

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    Man ruddock had one of the best left uppercuts I've ever seen. A very fun fighter to watch perform. I think with the right trainer he could have done a lot better than he did. Maybe steward would have been the man for him. But its sad to see him comeback at this age.
     
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  7. Spman20999

    Spman20999 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    With the heavyweights as they are now it is possible that Ruddock could take a belt... Man, that would make my day.
     
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  8. Saltzy

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    He's 46 yrs old....
     
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  9. Atlanta

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    Prizefighter, Senior Edition: Think of this folks, a Prize fighter of the best fighters... from the 80's and 90's. Winner gets $50K and early dementia, and we get heaps of black guilt thrown onto our souls for watching. Everyone loses.

    1. Evander Holyfield
    2. Riddick Bowe
    3. Brian Nielsen
    4. Oliver McCall
    5. Shannon Briggs
    6. Mike Tyson
    7. Andrew Golota
    8. Razor Ruddock

    Someone get Frank Warren on the phone.
     
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  10. thesandman

    thesandman Boxing Addict Full Member

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    What's even sadder is some of these guys are still getting title shots or fighting for mando spots....

    How many rounds? 3?

    Holy nicks it. It's 2 rounds too many for Briggs.
     
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  11. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Yeah, and Ruddock-Bowe or Ruddock-Holyfield would actually still sell surprisingly well even now. As long as nobody winds up counting the outcomes toward their prime careers or as indicators of how head to head meetings might have gone, I have no problem with these old-man superfights (provided, also, that nobody gets too badly hurt...knock on wood).

    As part of the trash talk, he could tell Bowe "October 2nd will be our wedding day...I'm going to make you my wife...you gonna be called Riddick Ruddock from then on".
     
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  12. Farmboxer

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    Vitali was scheduled to fight Ruddock years ago, but Ruddock had to back out because of an injury.
     
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  13. lzolnier

    lzolnier Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I can't say that I don't understand Ruddock's comeback. About 8 years back I saw him in a gym in the burbs of Toronto (not a boxing one either, just a regular shitty gym) teaching a dozen pimply Italian teeny boppers some boxing excercises....I think "Box to Burn Calories" it was called. There were no gloves, no bags, just people punching air and skipping rope. It was so humiliating to watch the champ working a shitty gig like that. Almost as humiliating as this commercial:



    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJj8N_V5IC4[/ame]
     
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  14. Boxed Ears

    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

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    :-:)-:)-(
     
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  15. DamonD

    DamonD Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Well hell, everyone else is coming back, why not?
     
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